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You are welcome to customize the config-definition.xml to customize your local configuration scheme as you see fit.  Any customizations to this file will require restarting your servlet container (e.g. Tomcat).

By default, the DSpace config-definition.xml file defines the following configuration:

• All DSpace configurations are loaded via Properties files
  • Note: Apache Commons Configuration does support other configuration sources such as XML configurations or database configurations, see its Overview documentation)
• By default, all configuration files are automatically checked each minute for changes. If they have changed, they are automatically reloaded.
• Configuration Files/Sources: By default, only two configuration files are loaded into Apache Commons Configuration:
  • local.cfg (see documentation on local.cfg above)
  • dspace.cfg (NOTE: however that all modulemodules/*.cfg are loaded by dspace.cfg via "include=" statements at the end of that configuration file)
• Configuration Override Scheme: The configuration override scheme is defined as follows. Configurations specified in earlier locations will automatically override any later values:
  • System Properties (-D[setting]=[value]) override all other options
  • Environment Variables
  • local.cfg
  • dspace.cfg (and all modulemodules/*.cfg files) contain the default values for all settings
• Configuration Auto-Reload: By default, all configuration files are automatically checked each minute for changes. If they have changed, they are automatically reloaded.

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Configuration Interpolation

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